stereotype

IPA: stˈɛriʌtaɪp

A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
(software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

(transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
(transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
(transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
(transitive, figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.

Examples of "stereotype" in Sentences

He is trying to break the stereotype.
They have not been gender stereotyped.
The section confuses cliche and stereotype.
The list of stereotypes is ridiculously offensive.
This is stereotyped foraging behavior of the Swedish.
It implies that the rest of the stereotypes are accurate.
For Canadians, a stereotype is politeness and selflessness.
For that matter, the British are stereotyped in 'Mary Poppins'.
How does the contradiction of a stereotype perpetuate the stereotype
However, it is a fact that there is a stereotype of the unrepentant Japanese.
As we saw in chapter 4, the term stereotype threat has been coined to describe this phenomenon.
Bolstering the stereotype is apparently more important to you than the science that Bradford offered you.
Members have long complained they have been unfairly characterised as lazy but the new research appears to prove that the stereotype is actually true.
From that point of view, the stereotype is actually a really efficient narrative tool — like the stock characters in medieval or Renaissance plays — especially for short-form visual media.
In contrast, for female students with the ability to succeed and an interest in rising to the top, highlighting expectations of poor performance are quite threatening—hence the name stereotype threat.21